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Along with all of that is an emotional suckerpunch as Esther learns that her troubled sister is volunteering herself – and her children – for Category One status.
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The difficulty in reading it comes from the ending though, in which Mieville succeeds in the denouement of turning the whole thrust of the novel up to that point into one ethical question with the sledgehammer impact of an emotional suckerpunch to the gut.
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So you better suckerpunch her in the throat if you feel threatened.
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How can Optimus be alive after multiple blaster shots and Megatron dead from a suckerpunch and a little fall?
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The most important battle of our time 2007
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Not like a suckerpunch, but I think maybe I snagged something on that thought, because it stuck with me and started to unravel some things.
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So many of us under the age of 50 knew that going into our first viewing of it, born as we were in the first post-PSYCHO wave does that make us Psycho Boomers? that it's almost impossible for us to fully appreciate the suckerpunch Hitch threw at audiences of the time.
31 Screams: Janet Leigh Arbogast 2008
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I think “suckerpunch” is what they serve at Gay Prom.
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But what began as a terrorist suckerpunch and a roundhouse American reply has become a game of three-dimensional chess, played by arcane international rules.
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But what if Clinton herself had been the nominee -- how would she have been able to fight back against that kind of cheap -- but previously lethal -- Republican suckerpunch?
John Eskow: Obama KOs Bush and McCain: Finally, a Democrat Who Knows How to Fight! 2008
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The whole Re-pubic game is to do a lot of fancy footwork, suckerpunch thier opponent, and then whine that they have been maligned and misunderstood.
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